When temperatures soar and you start looking at the world through sunglasses, you then realize what a cooling sensation it is to mute out colors and contemplate the environment through a monochromatic lens...

It quiets everything down.

In that spirit, here is a black-and-white rendering of a summer day in May in Paris inspired by the vision of an eternally meaningful city - made even more timeless thanks to B & W - but also as the translation of the view from behind dark shades in the heat and relative chaos of an early summer day.